I dropped my Sony Digital camera the other day and the 
floppy disk drive quit working. Not a hard hit but
those tiny disk drives are fragile. Sony said they
will fix it or exchange it in seven days.  

So I borrowed another camera and I bought a $20 Sony padded case for
the Mavica. Unfortunately one has to remove the camera from
the case to take a picture. So I cut some holes in it 
and machined this bezel out of aluminum bar stock on my
cheap Chinese lathe. Two pieces. Clamps the ragged round
hole for the lens with three 4-40 screws and makes it look fairly 
good from the front anyway. The padding causes the hole to 
be rather ragged if something like this is not done. The square 
hole in the back is so you can see the LCD. Too bad
Sony does not make it like this.

The flap helps shade the LCD in bright sunlight. This is a dire need
in Sony Mavica cameras.

BTW for some strange reason Sony's web site does not work with Netscape.
I think they are using a MS product to do their web site :-)

Paul Lamar
 
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